Thematic Session 2 Networked Media: Stateoftheart and IST Call 1 Objectives Skopje, 15 December 2006

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Thematic Session 2 Networked Media
State-of-the-art and IST Call 1
ObjectivesSkopje, 15 December 2006
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Introduction

• Networked Media
• Numerous electronic devices are connected to a
  network, and media files are accessed from
  anywhere via the network
• Europe is well placed in the worldwide race to
  develop the networks and service infrastructures
  of the future.

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Current Situation
Creation
Storage
Adaptation
Consumption

• Centralized content creation in professional
  production houses
• Static AV delivery (prescheduled broadcasts)
• Few to many mode content delivery
• TV guide the most widespread tool for AV content
  search

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Technical Challenges (1)

• User centric content creation and consumption
• Each device can be content source
• E.g. home appliances (sensor, IP camera, fridge)
• (Mobile) multiview and content consumption
• Diversity in terms of
• Types (encoding, formatting)
• Quality
• Content adaptation
• Seamless flow of content from one device to
  another
• E.g. from PC, to STB (Set Top Box), to mobile
  phone
• Network infrastructure
• Interoperable infrastructure for seamless
  multimedia networking

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Technical Challenges (2)

• Content Annotation
• Advanced and standardized metadata
• Indexing, cataloguing
• Content Searching
• Intelligent searching
• E.g. using NLP (Natural Language Processing)
• Invisible technology
• Limited user intervention

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Networked Audiovisual Systems in FP6
Directorate D - Network and Communication
Technologies
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FP6 project case study DANAE

• This STREP addresses the dynamic and distributed
  adaptation of scalable multimedia content in a
  context-aware environment, through
• the definition of scalable formats with
  associated meta-data
• their adaptation to the session context
• the transport and delivery of multimedia content
  to the end-user
• Key areas include
• MPEG 21 architecture
• MPEG 4 scalable codecs
• Data gathering from physical sensors

http//danae.rd.francetelecom.com/
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FP6 project case study ESTIA

• The Enhanced Networked Architecture for
  Personalised Provision of AV Content within the
  Home Environment STREP aims at
• Residential gateway for local AV content
  management in seamless manner
• Media trans-coding functions to allow content
  distribution to various terminals
• Personalised access to AV content and white goods
  functions
• Key areas include
• Residential gateway
• Personalized services
• Identity management

http//www.ist-estia.org/
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FP6 project case study WCAM

• The Wireless cameras and audio-visual seamless
  networking aims to
• Develop a wireless, seamless and secured
  end-to-end networked audio-visual system
• Support the convergence between video
  surveillance and multimedia distribution over the
  Internet
• Take into account real time aspects as well as
  security and scalability
• Key areas include
• Scalable Video Coding
• Automatic detection of event through scene
  analysis
• Wireless networking

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RD evolution in Software Services
Interoperable multimedia network and service
infrastructures End to end systems and
application platforms
Broadband Terminals and Servers Audiovisual
networking Rich media technologies
FP7
FP6
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From market technological trends to RTD
challenges and objectives
Seventh Framework Programme 2007-2013 (FP7)
COOPERATION Programme
IDEAS Programme
PEOPLE Programme
CAPACITIES Programme
ICT Work Programme 2007-2008 (Draft)
Challenge 1 Pervasive and Trusted Network and
Service Infrastructures
1st Call 24 April 2007
Objective 1.5 Networked Media
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Objective 1.5 Networked Media 1st Call
details

• Objective 1.5 is targeted in the 1st Call of ICT
• to be announced 22 /12/2006,
• with deadline for submission of proposals
  24/4/2007

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Obj. 1.5 Target Outcomes _at_ a glance

• Interoperable multimedia network and service
  infrastructures for
• Seamless, personalized and trusted experience
• Home management and control services
• Media content for users in a variety of roles,
  locations, contexts and mobility scenarios
• Automatic and intuitive enrichment of media at
  every step of the media lifecycle
• End to end system and application platforms for
• Intuitive professional and non-professional of
  creation, manipulation, storage/handling/search,
  rendering and management of media
• New creative of interactive, immersive and very
  high quality media
• New forms of experiences for individual users or
  user communities
• Roadmapping and Conference support
• In coordination with national or regional
  programs

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Who can participate?

• Opportunities for SEE countries all types of
  organisations (Research, SMEs, Public
  Administrations) can participate as partners with
  EC funding
• Players from
• Content
• Telecom
• Broadcast
• Consumer Electronics industries

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Areas to consider Applications

• Entertainment
• Pervasive gaming
• Digital cinema
• Advertising
• Online communities
• Personalized service creation
• Communication in communities
• Social Networks and Shared Knowledge

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Areas to consider Services

• Service Discovery and Information Filtering
• Context awareness
• Service personalization
• Service Platforms
• Service creation
• Middleware
• Micropayments
• User Interfaces
• Interactivity
• Multimodality
• Remote environments (telepresence)

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Areas to consider Content Manipulation

• Private and public content production
• Content encoding
• Content adaptation
• Content personalisation
• Context awareness
• Content annotation and summarising
• Content in the mobile world

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Areas to consider Network Infrastructure

• Network Architecture
• Home networking
• Network based intelligence for end-to-end service
  control
• Seamless service provisioning
• Network planning and optimization
• Quality of Service

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Areas to consider Terminals and User Devices

• Residential Gateway
• Architecture
• HAN / WAN interaction
• Home Multimedia Devices
• Media Home Terminal
• Gaming Terminals
• Broadband Portable Terminal
• Personal Mobile Terminal

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Areas to consider General Issues

• Privacy and Trust
• Security
• IPR Interoperable Digital Rights management
• Mixed reality
• Multimedia search

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Expected Impact

• Leadership in NG media technologies
• Higher performance in
• Intelligence
• Scalability
• Flexibility
• Speed
• Capacity
• ease of use
• cost

• Market opportunities and converged business
  models
• Content
• Telecom
• broadcast
• consumer industries
• New digital media consumption and production
  patterns

2007 2008 ICT workprogram
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References and Resources

• IST 2006 Event, Networked Media,
  http//europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/
  2006/cf/topic-details.cfm?topic_id6
• J. M. Dupont, Thompson The Networked Electronic
  Media (NEM) industrial initiative presentation,
  http//europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/
  2006/cf/conference-detail.cfm?id1039
• CORDIS, search utility (FP6 projects on
  networked media), http//cordis.europa.eu/fp6/pr
  ojects.htm
• Networked and Electronic Media (NEM initiative),
  http//www.nem-initiative.org/

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• Thank you for your attention
• Aggeliki Skamvetsaki (askam_at_planet.gr)
• Raphael Koumeri (planet_at_skypro.be)
• PLANET S.A.